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US5709296A
US5709296A US08/704,561 US70456196A US5709296A US 5709296 A US5709296 A US 5709296A US 70456196 A US70456196 A US 70456196A US 5709296 A US5709296 A US 5709296A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G33/00—Screw or rotary spiral conveyors
    • B65G33/08—Screw or rotary spiral conveyors for fluent solid materials
    • B65G33/14—Screw or rotary spiral conveyors for fluent solid materials comprising a screw or screws enclosed in a tubular housing
    • B65G33/20—Screw or rotary spiral conveyors for fluent solid materials comprising a screw or screws enclosed in a tubular housing the housing being rotatable relative to the screw
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G65/00—Loading or unloading
    • B65G65/30—Methods or devices for filling or emptying bunkers, hoppers, tanks, or like containers, of interest apart from their use in particular chemical or physical processes or their application in particular machines, e.g. not covered by a single other subclass
    • B65G65/34—Emptying devices
    • B65G65/40—Devices for emptying otherwise than from the top
    • B65G65/46—Devices for emptying otherwise than from the top using screw conveyors
    • B65G65/466—Devices for emptying otherwise than from the top using screw conveyors arranged to be movable

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  • the invention concerns a device relating to a feeder tube, i.e. a conveyor intended for bulk product, in particular a feed-out device, which comprises a cylindrical drum or tube in which there are accommodated inlet openings distributed along the length of the tube, a screw conveyor disposed coaxially within the tube, means for rotating the tube about its axis, means for rotating the screw conveyor relative to the tube, means for displacing the feeder tube in the lateral direction, and activators for the bulk product, which activators are disposed on the tube in association with the inlet openings and form projections on the outer side of the tube.
  • a feed-out device which comprises a cylindrical drum or tube in which there are accommodated inlet openings distributed along the length of the tube, a screw conveyor disposed coaxially within the tube, means for rotating the tube about its axis, means for rotating the screw conveyor relative to the tube, means for displacing the feeder tube in the lateral direction, and activators for the bulk product, which activators are disposed on the tube in association with the
  • Feeder tubes of the above-stated type are previously known and commonly used. Examples of such feeder tubes are described in Swedish Patent Applications 7611862-9 and 8004449-8. Feeder tubes can be used as conveyors for a host of different bulk products (bulk material) such as wood chips, coal, paper pulp, peat, sand, cement, ashes, grain, pellets, etc.
  • bulk products such as wood chips, coal, paper pulp, peat, sand, cement, ashes, grain, pellets, etc.
  • activators i.e. projections on the tube, are located at the back edge of the inlet openings.
  • back edge is herein meant the rear edge of the inlet opening viewed in the direction of rotation.
  • a particularly serious drawback with the said original feeder tube is that it is not suitable for use for material which is difficult to feed, such as damp forest waste, bark and similar materials which may contain fragments of longer branches, large chips, long bark flakes and similar fragments.
  • Product of this kind is able to be forcibly fed using a conventional screw conveyor, provided that there are very large drive forces available and the screw, the force transmission and the bearings are given correspondingly large dimensions, but the wear becomes very great and the working life of the screw, above all, is disagreeably short.
  • this can by no means be used for handling this difficult-to-feed material and, however much the drive power is increased, this is no help.
  • the tube does not help for the tube to be provided with activators on the one side of the inlet openings, as shown in Swedish Patent Specification 7611862-9. Nor does it help if such activators as are shown in the patent specification, i.e. activators which extend along the entire length of the openings, are disposed on both sides of the feed openings. In this case, the activating effect is completely eliminated. If one either has a tube which is without activators, a tube with activators according to SE 7611862-9, or activators on both sides of the feed-in openings and constructed according to the patent specification, then the result, when it is a case of the said difficult-to-feed material, is simply that the material packs harder and harder or merely swirls around, or that the tube becomes jammed.
  • the object of the invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems.
  • Other objects which can also be achieved by virtue of the invention, at least in certain embodiments thereof, are that symmetrical working relationships can be achieved regardless of the direction of travel (displacement of the feeder tube in the lateral direction).
  • FIG. 1 shows a portion of a feeder tube disposed in a silo for bulk product
  • FIG. 2 shows an inlet opening to the feeder tube according to a first embodiment on a larger scale
  • FIG. 3 shows a section III--III of the inlet opening in FIG. 2,
  • FIG. 4 shows an inlet opening according to a second embodiment
  • FIG. 5 shows a section V--V of the inlet opening in FIG. 4,
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the outer design of the tube at the end thereof.
  • a feeder tube having a known basic construction is denoted in general reference by the numeral 1.
  • This comprises a cylindrical tube 2 and a screw conveyor 3 disposed coaxially within the tube.
  • This lateral displacement can be effected directly at right-angles to the axis of the feeder tube 1 or about a centre of rotation, i.e. along an arc-shaped direction of travel.
  • a silo for bulk product 4 is denoted by 5 and the bottom of the silo is denoted by 6. That which has hitherto been described belongs to the prior art and does not therefore constitute any pan of the new invention.
  • the novelty lies in the design of the inlet openings and of the activators associated with the inlet openings.
  • the feeder tube shown in FIG. 1 is primarily intended for difficult-to-handle and/or fibrous material, e.g. fuel consisting of forest products, particularly so-called “crashed forest fuel", in which occasional larger fragments can occur and/or in which the material is easily entwined such that arching can easily arise.
  • the tube 2, along its length is provided with a number of helically distributed inlet openings 8, which are relatively large, in particular in the longitudinal direction of the tube.
  • the tube 2 illustrates in greater detail how such an inlet opening 8 appears according to a preferred embodiment.
  • the length can measure, for example, between 300 and 500 mm, whilst the width can measure, for example, between 100 and 300 mm.
  • a feeder tube having this hole geometry can be advantageous.
  • the hole edge is designed along half its length as a first activator 9A in the form of a projection of the tube wall at the hole edge. The height of this projection/activator normally measures between 5 and 20 mm.
  • a second activator 9B On the opposite side and within the second half of the hole edge there is a second activator 9B.
  • the two activators 9A and 9B are thus disposed diagonally relative to each other and accommodate half each of the longitudinal side of the inlet opening 8.
  • a portion 10A or 10B i.e. the one or the other half of the inlet opening 8, which is limited in the direction of rotation by a hole edge 11A or 11B, which has no activator, and by a hole edge 12A or 12B, which is provided with an activator 9A or 9B.
  • the activators 9A and 9B comprise, according to the embodiment, projections of the tube in the region of the respective hole edge portion 12A and 12B.
  • the height of the activators 9A and 9B is between about 5 and about 20 mm.
  • the inlet openings should be smaller. It is desirable that the bulk product should arch over the hole when the tube 2 is stationary and that it should automatically trickle in when the tube 2 rotates and activates the material with the aid of the activators.
  • FIG. 4 shows a smaller inlet opening of this kind for material which is easier to handle and less inclined to arch.
  • This inlet opening also, which is denoted by 18 in FIGS. 4 and 5, has a shape which is elongated in the axial direction. The length can measure, for example, 50-150 mm and the total width 20-100 mm.
  • the activator 19 consists in this case of an iron member, which extends centrally as a bridge over the inlet opening in the longitudinal direction of the latter.
  • the activator 19 divides the inlet opening into two portions 20A and 20B, so that each such portion 20A or 20B is limited on the one side by the activator 19 and on the other side by a hole edge 21A or 21B, which has no activator.
  • the device according to the invention comprises means for reversing the rotation of the tube, i.e. means for being able to rotate the tube in both directions according to requirement.
  • the apparatus further comprises means for rotating the screw feeder disposed in the tube relative to the tube, regardless of the direction of rotation of the tube.
  • the screw feeder is constantly rotated in the same direction, regardless of the direction of rotation of the tube, so as always to feed the material in one and the same direction.
  • the screw feeder according to a preferred embodiment is arranged such that it can be rotated at varying absolute rotation speeds.
  • the tube 2 is provided with outer threads 25-- comprising both left-threaded and right-threaded portions--in order, regardless of the direction of rotation of the tube, to activate the bulk product and feed it in towards the nearest inlet opening 8.
  • the feeder tube is installed in a silo for forest chippings, a material which is very difficult to feed, this being impossible to feed using previously known feeder tubes for reasons which have previously been described in the disclosure of the prior art.
  • a conventional feeder tube with a drive power of 115 kW had previously been used. With the drive force which this power could provide, the product could be fed out with difficulty, but at the expense of very rapid wear and resultant discarding of the screw.
  • the new feeder tube according to the invention which also operates in reverse running, the feed-out of the same, normally extremely difficult-to-handle material proceeded very well. The maximum available power could be reduced to 30 kW, yet there was no need for even this power to be fully utilized.

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